Your photos, simplified (Part III)

We’re happy to announce that we’ve rolled out the third part of our photos story: now you can automatically upload all the photos and videos you take with your iPhone or iPad to Dropbox!

Don’t worry about losing those once-in-a-lifetime shots, no matter what happens to your iPhone. Get the latest Dropbox app for iOS and simply turn on the camera upload feature. When you open the app, photos and videos from your iPhone or iPad are saved to Dropbox at their original size and quality in a private Camera Uploads folder. It’s easy to flip through all your automatically uploaded photos and videos in the Photos section of the Dropbox website. You can decide whether to use your data plan or Wi-Fi only, and pictures will simply upload while the app’s running! Plus, Dropbox won’t kill your battery if you’re low on power.

With this release, your iPhone, Android, and digital cameras can finally all work together. It’s easy to bring your photos and videos together in one place. And once your photos are in Dropbox, it’s super easy to share them with your friends and family using a shared folder or a link!

In case you missed it, you don’t need to worry about this feature using all your Dropbox space — we’ll give you an extra 500 MB for free for your first automatic upload from a camera, phone or tablet! The more photos and videos you upload this way, the more free space we’ll give you (up to a total of 3 GB per Dropbox account)!

How can I upload or download photos with my blackberry via the drop box app (Version 1.0.55)? I have access to all files an can see them but no option to up- or download a file or photo on my mobile device (Blackberry Torch 9800). Isn`t there a snyc option like “camera upload” in comparison to what is possible with the iphone?

I just experimented to find out. If you delete a photo from the iphone photo app it does NOT delete from your dropbox account (as long as you synced them first). Someone let me know if I’m mistaken please.

I have a Goflex Media wireless external hard drive and an iPad. I have downloaded a bunch of pictures from my iPad to they Dropbox app but do not know how to get the pictures from my Dropbox to my external hard drive…can anyone help?

HELP! My dropbox got jammed by agreeing to upload 900+ photos from my iphone. I was just trying to check out how it worked but it took so long that I eventually had to unplug. Now I can’t do ANYTHING with my dropbox account (can’t even save a new version of a word document) until, what, I complete the upload??? It says I have run out of space (even beyond the 3 MB increase)… but I physically dragged/removed all the photos from my dropbox so it should be fine!!! Help. This sucks. Wish I had never clicked to accept dropbox to upload photos.

I have the same issue where it still says there are over 100 photos still to upload (the red ballon with a number in it), but the app is stuck and nothing I do seems to get rid of that balloon. I have even uninstalled and reinstalled the app with no luck. Any ideas???

I was a part of a group of 12 who traveled to Africa for a week. We are trying to figure out if Dropbox would be a good way for all of us to dump our individual photos so the entire team can access and download what they want. Any thoughts about this?

If it is some massive amount you have to look out not to exceed size of your Dropbox account. It can be helpful to use some compression as well to upload / download it faster.

But if you don’t want to spend to much time on it, setup account drag&drop photos into shared folder and just wait till photos will upload. I’ve made that many times after various trips with friends. Works really great.

Would love it if syncing options could be added to the app – would be very useful for organising these photos! Phone -> Camera, Camera -> Phone, Camera Phone options would all be useful depending on the situation.

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